May. 23, 2014

May. 7, 2014

Art handlers remove Ralph Fasanella painting Subway Riders from subway station at 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue, where it has remained since becoming first oil painting to occupy New York City subway station in 1995; painting will form part of traveling exhibition Self Taught Genius: Treasures From the American Folk Art Museum. MORE

Apr. 24, 2014

Op-Ed article by journalist John Freeman Gill holds Museum of Modern Art's pledge to save facade of Folk Art Museum, building it has purchased and intends to tear down, will do little to preserve life or legacy of building; notes comparison to attempted preservation of facade of Laing Stores building in 1970s, incident that ended in theft and, ultimately, forgetfulness; says building, once torn down, ceases to be what it once was, and that a fragment cannot be compared with the whole. MORE

Apr. 21, 2014

Museum of Modern Art's latest expansion on site of former American Folk Art Museum has sharpened complaints from art critics, artists and patrons about Glenn D Lowry, museum's director; detractors decry plans to demolish nearby museum and personally blame Lowry for museum's cold and corporate image, saying that MOMA has grown too fast and is losing its soul as it pursues more and more visitors. MORE

Apr. 12, 2014

Museum of Modern Art is about to begin controversial demolition of former American Folk Art Museum at 45 West 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan; MoMA plans to use former folk art space to expand its galleries, in project that includes renovation of museum's main building. MORE

Feb. 28, 2014

Feb. 13, 2014

David W Dunlap Building Blocks column on fate of facade of former American Folk Art Museum in Midtown Manhattan; Museum of Modern Art says it cannot save building as it expands its own institution, but is intent on saving 82-foot-high sculptural ensemble of 63 copper-bronze alloy panels from structure's front. MORE

Jan. 19, 2014

Long friendship between two celebrated architect duos--Billie Tsien and Tod Williams and Ricardo Scofidio and Liz Diller--is under stress after Scofidio and Diller recommended tearing down the former home of the American Folk Art Museum, which Tsien and Williams designed; proposal is part of the expansion for the Museum of Modern Art; industry experts say they cannot recall an instance when one set of architects took down another's celebrated building just a few years after it went up. MORE

Jan. 14, 2014

Michael Kimmelman laments news that, after review by architecture firm Diller Scofidio & Renfro, former American Folk Art Museum building on Manhattan's West 53rd Street will be demolished to accommodate Museum of Modern Art's expansion. MORE

Jan. 9, 2014

Museum of Modern Art unveils sweeping redesign of its Midtown building featuring retractable glass wall, new gallery space and the opening of its entire first floor, including sculpture garden, free to the public; reaffirms its intention to demolish the former home of American Folk Art Museum, its next-door neighbor. MORE

Dec. 27, 2013

Nov. 1, 2013

Sotheby’s will auction paintings, furniture and other works that belonged to Ralph O. Esmerian, the former chairman of the American Folk Art Museum, who is now imprisoned for financial fraud. MORE

Jul. 5, 2013

Roberta Smith reviews works by Bill Traylor at the American Folk Art Museum. MORE

Jun. 20, 2013

A grant from the Henry Luce Foundation will finance a traveling exhibition of works from the American Folk Art Museum. MORE

May. 13, 2013

Michael Kimmelman welcomes news that public backlash against Museum of Modern Art, which was planning to demolish the nearby former American Folk Art Museum, has led museum to step back from plan; asserts that West 53rd street needs character of the tiny silver building, which is considered a distinctive work of contemporary design. MORE

May. 10, 2013

Museum of Modern Art says it will reconsider its decision to demolish former home of American Folk Art Museum after impassioned protests from prominent architects, preservationists and design critics; design firm Diller Scofidio & Renfro is tasked at handling expansion plans to help determine whether to keep any of the existing structure. MORE

Apr. 22, 2013

Architects have written a letter to the Museum of Modern Art asking it reconsider its decision to demolish the former American Folk Art Museum building in Manhattan. MORE

Apr. 11, 2013

Former home of American Folk Art Museum will be demolished to make room for expansion by its neighbor--Museum of Modern Art; folk museum building, which had opened in 2001 to critical praise, takes dubious place in history as having one of shortest lives of an architecturally ambitious project in Manhattan. MORE

Apr. 3, 2013

American Folk Art Museum, after selling its extravagant Midtown Manhattan building and embracing strict fiscal controls, is experiencing a rise in attendance and return of some donors. MORE

Feb. 15, 2013

Ken Johnson reviews exhibition Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed at the American Folk Art Museum. MORE

Dec. 14, 2012

Karen Rosenberg reviews Foiled: Tinsel Painting in America exhibit at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. MORE

Aug. 3, 2012

Roberta Smith reviews exhibit Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions, featuring offerings from the American Folk Art Museum, at the South Street Seaport Museum. MORE

Jan. 27, 2012

Ken Johnson reviews Jubilation/Rumination exhibit at the American Folk Art Museum, which is back in its old space near Lincoln Center. MORE

Aug. 25, 2011

American Folk Art Museum, crippled with debt, is examining different options for keeping its collection intact. MORE